“Love says I am everything.
Wisdom says I am nothing.
Between these two banks
flows the river of my Life.”
~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Learn to live without self concern. For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless, ever victorious. Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you but your own imagination, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas, and live by truth alone.

Just realize you are dreaming a dream you call the world and stop looking for ways out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that you like one part of your dream and not another.

Love all or none of it, and stop complaining. When you have seen the dream as a dream, you have done all that needs to be done”.

~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness effect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part.”

~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“There is only life, there is nobody who lives a life.”

~Nisargadatta Maharaj

“When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two.”

~Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the unborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are eligible because you are. You need not merit truth. It is your own. Just stop running away by running after. Stand still, be quiet.”

~Nisargadatta Maharaj

“My advice to you is very simple – just remember yourself, ‘I am’, it is enough to heal your mind and take you beyond, just have some trust …  If you want to know your true nature, you must have yourself in mind all the time, until the secret of your being stands revealed.”

~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The seeker is he who is in search of himself.

Give up all questions except one: ‘Who am I?’ After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. The ‘I am’ is certain. The ‘I am this’ is not. Struggle to find out what you are in reality.

To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not.

Discover all that you are not — body, feelings thoughts, time, space, this or that — nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be you. The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive.

The clearer you understand on the level of mind you can be described in negative terms only, the quicker will you come to the end of your search and realise that you are the limitless being.

~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj